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Veii. The Historical Topography of the Ancient City
A Restudy of John Ward-Perkins’s Survey
Roberta Cascina (Editor); Helga Di Giuseppe (Editor); Helen Patterson (Editor)
During the nineteenth century, antiquarians such as William Gell and George
Dennis visited the ancient city of Veii, some 15 km north of Rome, and noted the
rapid destruction of its archaeology. The city continued under to be under threat,
and in the 1950s was the subject of ground-breaking survey and excavation by
John Ward-Perkins. However, the results of his fieldwork were never published
fully. Knowledge and understanding of material culture (especially pottery, votive
objects and architectural terracottas) has increased dramatically over the past
fifty years, so allowing the authors to reveal the full potential of the data. This
publication reaffirms many of Ward-Perkins’s original insights, and contextualizes
his research within the new discoveries of the past fifty years; whilst an important
contribution to our knowledge, it is also a spur to further work.
9780904152630, £85.00, February 2013, HB, 432p, 142 illus, 2 colour plates
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Vesuvian Sigillata at Pompeii
Jaye McKenzie-Clark (Author)
The destruction of Pompeii in AD79 provides a unique opportunity to explore the
use of everyday items. It allows us to identify the source and variety of products
available within the city, and enables us to track changes in the consumption of
goods over time. In this volume, Jaye McKenzie-Clark presents the far-reaching
results of her examination of the red slip tableware within three regions of the city.
It pinpoints the initial supply and use of Vesuvian Sigillata, and investigates factors
that may have led to the popularity of this style of pottery. The investigation
maps the on-going manufacture of these ceramics and identifies changes in
production and consumption up to the time of the eruption. Examination of the
distribution within contexts of different social use also reveals distinct patterns
of consumer demands and consumption within Pompeian society. Such research
helps us to explore and understand the use of goods within the city of Pompeii
and throughout the Roman world.
Classical World – Ancient Rome
9780904152623, £19.95, February 2013, PB, 162p, 32 illus, 4 colour plates
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Rome, Portus and the Mediterranean
Simon Keay (Editor)
One of the greatest consequences of Rome’s expansion across the Mediterranean
world in the course of the Republic and the earliest years of the Empire was an
exponential growth in the population and extent of the city itself. The emperors of
the first three centuries ad faced major strategic challenges in ensuring a regular
annual supply of food to the city, as well as other goods. This volume brings together
various contributions, to assess how far Portus, as the maritime port of Imperial
Rome from the mid-first century ad, was the principal conduit for supplying Rome
and the extent to which the commercial links that fed Portus were part of a single
overarching network or a series of interlinked networks that extended across the
Mediterranean. The volume begins with a detailed reconsideration of Portus and
its relationship to Ostia and Rome, continuing with studies that deal with a range
of broader issues concerning the relationship of Mediterranean ports to Rome,
Portus and Ostia before returning to more general considerations of connectivity,
networks, coastal geo-archaeology and computational methods.
9780904152654, £90.00, February 2013, HB, 454p, 158 illus, 14 colour plates,
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